History ComicBook / Marville

* BrokenAesop: As much as the comic skewers left-wing viewpoints, Al's story is clumsily rooted in socialism, if not communism. He arrives in the past with no money, no skills, and no personal identification, gets by at first due to the charity and help of others who take pity on him, and becomes rich through what is basically government handouts for doing nothing. Additionally, he claims that in the future society of 5002 everything on Earth is owned and run by AOL and no one has any personal possessions, yet the future is shown to be a rather idyllic advanced utopia (and Al claims that crime has been eradicated if only because no one has any personal possessions to steal anymore).

* AuthorTract: Even before the series [[GoingCosmic went cosmic]], Bill Jemas was not subtle about his political beliefs. In the first two issues, Creator/TedTurner is a doofus, Creator/SpikeLee is [[ComicBook/TheKingpin the Kingpin of Crime]], Rush Limbaugh a fit superhero with tons of fans, and charity, political correctness, and liberalism are mocked. Once the series ''does'' get philosophical, it claims that intelligent design is real, the theory of evolution is decried as short-sighted and stupid (and Jack directly insults scientists and paleontologists), and God and the first humans were white (Lucy even specifically refers to God as Caucasian, "like he appears in the Bible").

The comic ran for seven issues in 2002-2003, and was reviewed by [[Creator/LewisLovhaug Linkara]] in [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall]].

* ArtisticLicenseBiology Biology: Issues #3 to #5 are loaded with scientific inaccuracies, to the point where you'd very likely be faster off making a list of things that ''are'' accurate. Special award to carbon dioxide molecules being alive.

* ArtisticLicense: Everything, including (but not limited to)...
** [[ArtisticLicenseBiology Biology]]: Issues #3 to #5 are loaded with scientific inaccuracies, to the point where you'd very likely be faster off making a list of things that ''are'' accurate. Special award to carbon dioxide molecules being alive.
** [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology Paleontology]]: Hadrosaurs and velociraptors, aside from being drawn in an anatomically inaccurate way, are shown living at the same time as one another in the Jurassic period, which is untrue. Even more inaccurately, they are said to be inhabiting what will eventually become the northern United States, even though no dinosaurs were ever discovered to have inhabited that particular area. Otters are also shown living in the late Cretaceous period (they didn't show up until well after the dinosaurs went extinct), Al refers to pterosaurs as dinosaurs that live in the water, and crossing over with [[ArtisticLicenseBiology a biological goof]], Jack explains that dinosaurs can't be warm-blooded because of their spine movements. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also]], ''the dinosaurs can talk.'' In reality, dinosaurs don't talk, and Bill Jemas is a gullible dingus.
** [[ArtisticLicenseReligion Religion]]: When Al and Lucy discuss the literal appearance of God, Lucy claims that the GrandpaGod laid before her "looks exactly like he does in the Bible", specifically describing him with "a flowing white beard and a wise ''Caucasian'' brow". Putting aside [[HumansAreWhite race theory]], The Bible ''does not'' describe His appearance [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm as being anything tangible beyond being too extreme for mortals]], with the GrandpaGod visual being a distinctly revisionist interpretation.

The comic ran for seven issues in 2002-2003, and was reviewed by [[Creator/LewisLovhaug Linkara]] in [[WebSeries/AtopTheFourthWall]].

The comic ran for seven issues in 2002-2003.

** In issue 3, Al gets another huge sack of money as a reward for catching the Kingpin in issue 2. He didn't, after a conversation with him they left the Kingpin's office and did nothing to him.

* CurbstompBattle: During Issue #2, Rush Limbaugh shows up and zaps some {{Captain Ersatz}}es of ComicBook/{{Batman}}, ComicBook/IronMan, and ComicBook/BlackPanther to smithereens.

* DirtyHarriet: Lucy does this in her introductory issue.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: God is seen by Mickey and Al in different forms (a GrandpaGod for the former and a [[LawyerFriendlyCameo lawyer-friendly]] Superman {{expy}} for the latter), before eventually settling on a young African American.

** In issue 1, Al notes that no one in the past ever heard of Marvel; once he travels to the past, people consider his shirt (reading "Marvel Enterprises") to be proof he knows Marvel executives and mention Joe Quesada. Then in issue 2 Al assumes that Mickey would have studied Stan Lee in college and quotes ''Spider-Man''. While Lee did plenty of comic work outside of Marvel, the framing of the scene makes it clear that Al considers Lee to be famous particularly for his work with Marvel.

** To tell when they get to the Jurassic Age, they scoop up some water and take it into the time machine with them, and set the time machine to fast forward, and inside the time machine they watch the water as the microorganisms in it evolve into a fish, an amphibian, and then a duckbilled dinosaur. Aside from the fact evolution does not work this way, why would the microorganisms evolve ''inside'' the time machine, but its other occupants don't?

** [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology Paleontology]]: Hadrosaurs and velociraptors, aside from being drawn in an anatomically inaccurate way, are shown living at the same time as one another in the Jurassic period, which is untrue. Even more inaccurately, they are said to be inhabiting what will eventually become the northern United States, even though no dinosaurs were ever discovered to have inhabited that particular area. Otters are also shown living in the late Cretaceous period (they didn't show up until well after the dinosaurs went extinct), Al refers to pterosaurs as dinosaurs that live in the water, and crossing over with [[ArtisticLicenseBiology a biological goof]], Jack explains that dinosaurs can't be warm-blooded because of their spine movements. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also]], ''the dinosaurs can talk.'' In reality, dinosaurs don't talk.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Al's dog [=AOLstro=] doesn't appear in the third issue. While it could be assumed that the humans simply didn't take the dog with them on their time travel adventure, he doesn't appear in the opening pages that take place in the present either.

* ConfirmationBias: [[invoked]] The characters repeatedly insist that God had to have created everything, or at least set it in motion, because the conditions for life to evolve on Earth are just right. Mickey points out that across billions of gallons of water across the entire planet across millions of years, sooner or later the right chemical reaction to form the first biological life would happen due to random chance. But given she is being presented as a StrawCharacter, the characters insist this is just too perfect to be random chance, so it ''must'' be the work of God.

* AllMenArePerverts: Guess how Al discovers he doesn't have XRayVision.

* AuthorTract: Even before the series [[GoingCosmic went cosmic]], Bill Jemas was not subtle about his political beliefs, framing Creator/TedTurner to be a doofus, Creator/SpikeLee [[ComicBook/TheKingpin the Kingpin of Crime]], and Rush Limbaugh a fit superhero with tons of fans. Once it did get philosophical, among the extended claims are that intelligent design is real, the theory of evolution decried as short-sighted and stupid (Jack directly calling paleontologists stupid), the original humans were white, and charity, racial sensitivity, vegetarianism, and political correctness are all mocked.

** [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology Paleontology]]: Hadrosaurs and velociraptors, aside from being drawn in an anatomically inaccurate way, are shown living at the same time as one another in the Jurassic period, which is untrue. Even more inaccurately, they are said to be inhabiting what will eventually become the northern United States, even though no dinosaurs were ever discovered to have inhabited that particular area. Otters are also shown living in the late Cretaceous period (they didn't show up until well after the dinosaurs went extinct), Al refers to pterosaurs as dinosaurs that live in the water, and crossing over with [[ArtisticLicenseBiology a biological goof]], Jack explains that dinosaurs can't be warm-blooded because of their spine movements. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also]], ''the dinosaurs can talk.''

** [[ArtisticLicenseBiology Biology]]: Issues #3 to #5 are loaded with scientific inaccuracies, to the point where you'd very likely be faster off making a list of things that ''are'' accurate. Special award to carbon dioxide molecules being alive.
** [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology Paleontology]]: Hadrosaurs and velociraptors, aside from being drawn in an anatomically inaccurate way, are shown living at the same time as one another in the Jurassic period, which is untrue. Even more inaccurately, they are said to be inhabiting what will eventually become the northern United States, even though no dinosaurs were ever discovered to have inhabited that particular area. Otters are also shown living in the late Cretaceous period (they didn't show up until well after the dinosaurs went extinct), Al refers to pterosaurs as dinosaurs that live in the water, and crossing over with [[ArtisticLicenseBiology a biological goof]], Jack explains that dinosaurs can't be warm-blooded because of their spine movements. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also]], ''the dinosaurs can talk.''

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Issues #3 to #5 are loaded with scientific inaccuracies, to the point where you'd very likely be faster off making a list of things that ''are'' accurate. Special award to carbon dioxide molecules being alive.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Hadrosaurs and velociraptors, aside from being drawn in an anatomically inaccurate way, are shown living at the same time as one another in the Jurassic period, which is untrue. Even more inaccurately, they are said to be inhabiting what will eventually become the northern United States, even though no dinosaurs were ever discovered to have inhabited that particular area. Otters are also shown living in the late Cretaceous period (they didn't show up until well after the dinosaurs went extinct), Al refers to pterosaurs as dinosaurs that live in the water, and crossing over with [[ArtisticLicenseBiology a biological goof]], Jack explains that dinosaurs can't be warm-blooded because of their spine movements. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also]], ''the dinosaurs can talk.''
* ArtisticLicenseReligion: When Al and Lucy discuss the literal appearance of God, Lucy claims that the GrandpaGod laid before her "looks exactly like he does in the Bible", specifically describing him with "a flowing white beard and a wise ''Caucasian'' brow". Putting aside [[HumansAreWhite race theory]], The Bible ''does not'' describe His appearance [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm as being anything tangible beyond being too extreme for mortals]], with the GrandpaGod visual being a distinctly revisionist interpretation.

* NeonSignHideout: The Kingpin of Crime's lair is a gigantic skyscraper with "KINGPIN ENTERPRISES" written on the side.

* BehindTheBlack: During issue #2, the cast and ComicBook/SpiderMan track down the Kingpin's lair to an abandoned bowling alley. Lucy asks him if this is really the place, and the next panel pulls out to reveal a gigantic skyscraper behind the bowling alley with "KINGPIN ENTERPRISES" on the side. However, this leads to a blooper as the previous panel had not showed the roof of the bowling alley and above, showing that there was nothing behind it until the next panel.

'''Mickey:''' That's not justice.

* IronicEcho: While saving a theater ticket scalper from the thief, Al says he's defending the scalper despite him being a criminal as well "[[ComicBook/Superman For truth, justice, and the American way]]". The scalper is... er, [[UngratefulBastard not appreciative.